### COLDAT Updates ###

The following changes have been made since the original publication of COLDAT.

# Update 21.09.2023 #

- The colonial status of absorbed territories is transfered to contemporary nation states if they make up at least 10% of the current area (as opposed to 5% in the earlier version of COLDAT); this leads to changes for Cameroon, Mauritania, and Thailand that better reflect the historical record.

- The inaccurate coding of the Marshall Islands as a former British colony has been removed.

* Special thanks to Laura Seelkopf and Jean-François Mignot for pointing out inconsistencies.



